At Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:43:49 -0500,
Bill Jacobson wrote:
> 
> For some months now, I've been successfully capturing Firefox data as 
> explained here: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html
> But the results below demonstrate a problem. The 2nd and 3rd represent 
> what was captured into Emacs, the quoted line in each case being what 
> was highlighted in Firefox.
> Emacs version is: GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ 
> Version 2.22.0) of 2011-05-03
> 
> Manually copied:
> [[http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/05/31/Browsers][ongoing by 
> Tim Bray · Me and My Browsers]]
> "I like that Chrome’s fast, and I really like that it’s robust"
> 
> Org-mode version 7.4:
> [[http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/05/31/Browsers][ongoing by 
> Tim Bray · Me and My Browsers]]
> "I like that Chrome’s fast, and I re­-ally like that it’s ro­-bust"
> 
> Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.5.409.g4f3a3) == latest
> [[http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tbray.org%2Fongoing%2FWhen%2F201x%2F2011%2F05%2F31%2FBrowsers][ongoing 
> by Tim Bray %C2%B7 Me and My Browsers]]
> "I like that Chromeâ%80%99s fast%2C and I re%C2%ADally like that 
> itâ%80%99s ro%C2%ADbust"

I'm looking into this issue, but this caught my eyes:

> Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.5.409.g4f3a3) == latest
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This looks like a mixed up Org mode install, doesn't it?

It would explain the problem you face. The functions for escaping
%-encoded characters has changed significantly and if you run
org-protocol.el from 7.5 together with org.el from 7.4 you would get
exactly what you got.

Could you check if you have a mixed Org install?

Best,
  -- David
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